Example sentences of "[noun prp] may be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In less polite ways , Panama may be pushing its luck . |
| 2 | It is also worth noting that Lawton claims that the HMIs may be pushing a model of curriculum planning ( based upon statements of aims and objectives ) which is out of date an issue we return to later in the chapter , and in Chapter 8 . |
| 3 | SOCCER star Neil Webb may be struggling to find top form . |
| 4 | Dealers in Manhattan may be crying poverty , but plans are underway to open three exhibition spaces patterned after the European Kunsthalle model by the spring . |
| 5 | Sunderland may be playing at Wembley next month but they may also be relegated from the Second Division despite having games in hand . |
| 6 | And talking of news , Alice , you might be interested to hear that Madeleine may be getting engaged to an army officer called Lionel Dunbar . |
| 7 | And by now , the tabloid writers were switching their attention to other male members of the Neighbours cast , and hinting Kylie may be dating them too . |
| 8 | Miles , Bell and Gregory may be getting older , but there is not a First Division club who would not move in if they became available . ’ |
| 9 | CRYSTAL PALACE may be struggling to keep in step with the rest of the Premier League but they were named yesterday as models of military efficency . |
| 10 | The Chandlers may be looking to move house in the next year or so . |
| 11 | But I 'm bound to say that his recent experience at Barnes may be having some effect . ’ |
| 12 | The influx of new citizens from Russia may be exacerbating the friction in the settlements being established in the Israeli-administered territories won from the country 's Arab neighbours in the various attacks on the country since 1948 , and it represents an exodus of skills that Russia can ill afford to lose , but it is doing nothing but good for the vibrant information technology sector of the Israeli economy . |
| 13 | From the United States come signs that the Japanese car manufacturers Toyota may be making its long-expected move to become ‘ a force ’ in general aviation . |
| 14 | Michael Smyth from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown said that although there were strong indications of an upturn in recent months , Northern Ireland may be facing tough times ahead . |
| 15 | ONE QUARTER of people living in Scotland may be living on the breadline according to figures released by the Labour party yesterday . |
| 16 | " You mean , you think that Mr. Lennis may be trying to get rid of you ? " |
| 17 | ‘ I have a feeling , ’ he said at last , ‘ that Mahmoud may be receiving the same sort of advice . ’ |
| 18 | Reading of the specials on the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway , there is a suggestion that Santa Specials may be running into Cholsey . |
| 19 | BASCELT ( British Association of State Colleges in English Language Teaching ) members may be benefiting at the expense of Arels schools , and the UK may be losing out to the US and other Anglophone countries when it comes to perceived value for money . |
| 20 | But this quality is balanced by the paradoxical notion that Bellay may be giving us a clearer view of what things are actually like , as though reality were an infinitely accessible enigma . |
| 21 | Diplomats think that by releasing General Tin Oo now , General Ne Win may be trying to counter the growing power of the MIS head , Khin Nyunt . |
| 22 | ‘ Malcolm may be coming in for a couple of days each week , ’ said Rofe . |
| 23 | The news that Hanson may be preparing to bid for ICI has been met by a united front on the ICI board . |
| 24 | The state of Michigan may be having another try . |
| 25 | Worse still , Europe may be losing out because it has too little high-technology manufacturing . |
| 26 | The inmates at Bullingdon jail near Bicester may be serving their time , but they claim they 're being served up insufficient and unpalatable food . |
| 27 | LENNOX LEWIS may be protesting too much about wanting to fight Riddick Bowe immediately for the undisputed world heavyweight title . |
| 28 | Myers may be mining his adolescence for material , but at the same time he 's giving a continent 's youth big-screen justification for its own sedentary existence . |
| 29 | BRITAIN may be pulling out of Hong Kong but trusty Tykes are putting the chips down in the battle for the hearts — and stomachs — of the Chinese . |
| 30 | Although the recent decisions on the Channel Tunnel and the PBKAL ( Paris-Brussels-Cologne-Amsterdam-London ) line are signs that Britain may be coming in from the cold , the country is still seen as an isolated outpost of a European transport network in which the main traffic flows will run north to south linking the industrial areas of France , Germany and Italy . |